"Alaska swimmer's win reinstated after swimsuit controversy":

[tblue37]

https://nypost.com/2019/09/11/alaska-swimmers-win-reinstated-after-swimsuit-controversy/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_4467521

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An Alaska high school swimmer’s win has been reinstated after she was initially disqualified over the fit of her team-issued bathing suit, officials said.

High school swimmer DQ’d because ref saw ‘butt cheek touching butt cheek’
The Anchorage School District said Tuesday the decision to disqualify the 17-year-old girl, whose bathing suit apparently revealed too much of her buttocks, was “heavy-handed and unnecessary,” the Anchorage Daily News reported.

The teen’s win on Friday was thrown out by a referee who ruled that the suit “was so far up I could see butt cheek touching butt cheek.”

In a written statement, school officials slammed the Alaska School Activities Association for making the call “based solely on how a standard, school-issued uniform happened to fit the shape of her body.”

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[hlthe2b]

1. Some of these a'holes are determined to control women and their bodies anyway they can

I'm glad this story got the nationwide attention it should and this creep was overruled.

[madaboutharry]

6. +1

I am so sick of this, so tired of men telling woman how to look.

[groundloop]

24. I'm pretty sure I read that the official who disqualified her was a woman.

[madaboutharry]

27. That makes it even worse.

[TeamPooka]

48. There had been a male parent instigating some of this against the swimmer

There had been a male parent instigating some of this against the swimmer
The male parent had even gone as far as taking pictures of the girl and her backside in the suit in what he felt was provocative, regardless of the fact that she’s under age and what he was doing could be classified as pedophilia and child pornography
I still think he should be prosecuted for that

[Archae]

2. Now name the jackass who disqualified her, and fire his sorry butt.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. exactly!

[spooky3]

9. Iirc, the referee is female. Nt

[Archae]

15. Doesn't matter, male or female, fire the jerk.

[Blue_true]

23. Exactly. nt

[jberryhill]

3. There's a whole bunch more butt cheeks in evidence here

Many people there also saw an asshole.

[AllyCat]

31. Lol!

[malaise]

4. I hope that ref has been banned for life

Fuck him

[sheshe2]

7. Perhaps the ref...

Perhaps the ref should have had his eyes 👀 on the meet and not on her ass!

Pervert.

[tblue37]

8. This! nt

[Dr. Strange]

13. "His" eyes?

[a kennedy]

10. IT WAS A FEMALE REF!!!!!

[tblue37]

11. Women can be harsh monitors of other women's bodies. nt

[SunSeeker]

22. Yep. nt

[obamanut2012]

42. It was also a POC young woman

[Horse with no Name]

12. So he was aroused by a young girl

Obviously it was her fault and she needed to be punished.
I hate these fucking perverts.

[a kennedy]

14. Please see post #9......The ref is female!!!!!

[Crunchy Frog]

16. They got publicly shamed into reversing themselves.

I wonder if there's a potential lawsuit there.

[JI7]

17. it was becsuse she is black

[tblue37]

18. Like the doctor who got hassled on the plane because she wore a jumpsuit (romper), was black, and

had a curvy figure:



BTW, American Airlines did apologize to her.

[RobinA]

29. She's Black?

Could have fooled me.

[drmeow]

30. A previous article

stated that the student who was disqualified is black.

[Celerity]

36. Brecklyn Willis (on the right, her sister on the left)

[Catherine Vincent]

39. They are bi-racial

Anyway, the ref should be fired. Idiot.

[Celerity]

40. Jill Blackstone (the ref) was stripped of her certification

She also had went after Brecklyn Willis' younger sister, Dreamer Kowatch, who is potentially the fastest swimmer Alaska has ever produced, before.

They have four other sisters

Tatumn (the oldest), Harmony, Legend, and Sparrow


They already had a story about them a couple years ago (about a hedgehog, lolol)


The strange tale of how an Anchorage hedgehog missing for 2 months finally came home

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2017/03/16/hedgehog-napping-in-anchorage/

[druidity33]

41. Thats an adorable story, k&r, nt.

[OriginalGeek]

46. I don't know any single other thing about them

but just from their kid's names. I love those parents and their family. Glad she got her win reinstated!

[obamanut2012]

45. This reply is problematic

"Fooled you" how? The sisters are obviously WOC.

[obamanut2012]

43. 100% why

[Tech]

19. These same people are the type to complain about swim burkas.

[WePurrsevere]

20. Oh for flock sake! So basically she was disqualified because...

her school approved swimsuit rode up her butt?

Good grief, when I was teen I was yanking my swimsuit down over my butt all the time. As a curvy girl it was difficult to get swimsuits that fit both my top and bottom properly.

Some people seriously have issues and need to pull the stick out of their backsides.

[Wounded Bear]

35. And team issued suits won't fit every person the same way...

[WePurrsevere]

37. Exactly! nt

[SunSeeker]

21. Good. Now fire that racist ref. nt

[George II]

25. Hey ref, you can kiss my "butt cheek touching my butt cheek", right smack in the middle of them!!!

[shenmue]

26. Why is he looking at her ass?

[JGug1]

28. Reinstated?

Sorry, that isn't enough. The person responsible for the initial ruling should be removed from any contact with scholastic swimming. This child could easily be scarred for life. What does that bastard care? Not a drop. The child is mixed race.

[DFW]

32. It's amazing how many people here insist on assuming the offending referee was a man

Even after it has been pointed out numerous times it was a woman.

Right-wing self-righteous idiots are an equal opportunity category. They allow anyone to join.

[OilemFirchen]

33. It's equally interesting that you assume she was right-wing.

[Dr. Strange]

34. I wouldn't say "equally".

It's an assumption, sure, but there's nothing in the article that indicates her political leaning one way or the other. But the article does state that the referee was female, and several people here have pointed it out, and yet the assumption (that the ref was male) keeps appearing in responses.

[LanternWaste]

44. I guess their assumptions compelled you to make your own.

If nothing else, at least there's a symmetrical (and "amazing&quot consistency in doing as much.

[MrScorpio]

38. Good, misogynoir loses the day

Policing Black bodies, especially those of Black girls is still out of control. The disqualification was simply the most glaring example of a system set up to fail Black children no matter what.

[IronLionZion]

47. Glad the win was reinstated, but they could change some things

like not allow people to be disqualified because of how standard issue clothing fits a person's nonstandard body, since everyone is unique.

And I swam competitively back in high school. Swimsuits are one item that people really should not be required to wear the school issued version if it is going to be a problem. There are different designs of athletic swimwear out there that are less likely to ride up. I chose to wear a more modest one instead of the official school one because of a similar issue, and I'm male. This was back in the 90s. It would be more of a problem now as schools have gotten more diverse. There are people who simply feel cold in the water or have religious beliefs requiring different designs.

[Vinca]

49. A win is a win whether your buns are exposed or not. Good for her.